Alice Springs Desert Park
ASDP InsectsAmegilla chlorocyanea Bee Banksia Moth – Caterpillar Bee Fly (Australiphthiria sp) Bee Fly (Ligyra cingulata) Braunsapis sp Bush Cockroach (Ellipsidion humarale) Caper White Butterfly Chequered Swallowtail (Papilio demoleus ssp sthenelus) Crusader Bug (Mictis profana) Day Flying Moth Exoneurella eremophila Bee Ground Shield Bug Heliotrope Moth (Utetheisa pulchelloides) Katydid (Taeniomenae) Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) Mating Lasioglossum (Homalictus) Opisthopsis sp Potter Wasp Processionary Caterpillar Snout Beetle (Lixus) Torymus Chalcid Wasp Transverse Ladybird
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Choerocoris paganus, commonly known as the Ground Shield Bug or Red Jewel Bug is a species of “true bug”. Both the adults and nymphs of this species feed primarily on the sappy content of the seeds of the hop-bush genus Dodonaea. The flora species pictured here is the Brilliant Hopbush (Dodonaea microzyga), in the Alice Springs Desert Park.
The adult true bug of the species pictured here is reddish in colour with the iridescent black-blue patches. The body surface is pitted, the antennae filamentous, with a body length of 1 cm.
See the Ground Shield Bug (Choerocoris paganus) feeding on the hop-bush (Dodonaea viscosa) in the Olive Pink Botanic Garden.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Hemiptera
- Suborder: Heteroptera
- Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha
- Superfamily: Pentatomoidea
- Family: Scutelleridae
- Subfamily: Scutellerinae
- Genus: Choerocoris
- Species: Choerocoris paganus
Footnote & References
- Choerocoris paganus (Fabricius, 1775), Ground Shield Bug, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/54d8a8b2-debc-40ef-b934-129951b15d81
ASDP InsectsAmegilla chlorocyanea Bee Banksia Moth – Caterpillar Bee Fly (Australiphthiria sp) Bee Fly (Ligyra cingulata) Braunsapis sp Bush Cockroach (Ellipsidion humarale) Caper White Butterfly Chequered Swallowtail (Papilio demoleus ssp sthenelus) Crusader Bug (Mictis profana) Day Flying Moth Exoneurella eremophila Bee Ground Shield Bug Heliotrope Moth (Utetheisa pulchelloides) Katydid (Taeniomenae) Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) Mating Lasioglossum (Homalictus) Opisthopsis sp Potter Wasp Processionary Caterpillar Snout Beetle (Lixus) Torymus Chalcid Wasp Transverse Ladybird
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